SBI Associate 2011 PO

Instructions

Read the following passage carefully and answer the question given below it Certain words/phrases have been printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of the question.

India is rushing headlong towards economic success and modernisation counting on high-tech industries such as information technology and biotechnology to propel the nation to prosperity India’s recent announcement that it would no longer produce unlicensed inexpensive generic pharmaceuticals bowed to the realities of the world Trade Organisation while at the same time challenging the domestic drug industry to compete with the multinational firms. Unfortunately its weak higher education sector constitutes the Achilles’ heel of this strategy. Its systematic disinvestment in higher education in recent years has yielded neither world-class research nor very many highly trained scholars scientists or managers to sustain high-tech development.

India’s main competitors-especially China but also Singapore Taiwan and South Korea are investing in large and differentiated higher education systems. They are providing access to a large number of students at the bottom of the academic system while at the same time building some research-based universities that are able to compete with the world’s best institutions. The recent London Times Higher Education Supplement ranking of the world’s top 200 universities included three in China three in Hong Kong three in South Korea One in Taiwan and one in India. These countries are positioning themselves for leadership in the knowledge-based economies of the coming era.
There was a time when countries could achieve economic success with cheap labour and low-tech manufacturing, Low wages still help but contemporary large scale development requires a sophisticated and at least partly knowledge-based economy India has chosen that path but will find a major stumbling block in its university system
India has significant advantages in the 21st century knowledge race.It has a large higher education sector the third largest in the world in terms of numbers of students after China and the united states It uses english as a primary language of higher education and research It has long acdemic tradition Academic freedom is respected There are a small number of high-quality institutions departments, and centres that can from the basic sector in higher education The fact that the states rather than the central Government exerise major responsibility for higher education creates a rather “cumbersome” but the system allows for a variety of policies and approaches
Yet the weaknesses far outweigh the strengths India educates approximately 10 per cent of its young people in higher education compared to more than half in the major industrialised countries and 15 per cent in China Almost all of the world’s academic system “resemble” a pyramid, with a smaller high-quality tier at the top tier.None of its universities occupies a solid position at the top A few of the best unversities have some excellence The University Grants Commission’s recent major support to five universities to build on their recognised strength is a step towards recognising a differentiated academic system and “fostering” excellence These universities combined enro; well under one percent of the student population.

Question 181

Choose the word of words which is most similar in meaning to the word printed in bold as used in the passage: MASSIVE

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Question 182

Choose the word of words which is most similar in meaning to the phrase printed in bold as used in the passage: STUMBLING BLOCK

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Question 183

Choose the word which is opposite in meaning to the word printed in bold as used in the passage: CUMBERSOME

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Question 184

Choose the word which is opposite in meaning to the word printed in bold as used in the passage: RESEMBLE

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Question 185

Choose the word which is opposite in meaning to the word printed in bold as used in the passage: DIFFERENTIATED

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Instructions

Rearrange the following six sentence (A),(B),(C),(D),(E) and (F) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph then answer the question given below them.
(A)Its prevalence reflects very badly on a society that is not able to stop this evil.
(B)Though elimination of child labour is an impossible task considering the current socio-economic scenario of these poor families the Indian government is committed to the task of ensuring that no child remains illiterate hungry and without medical care,
(C)Therefore unless the socio-economic status of the poor families is improved India has to live with child labour
(D)The members of these households have to send their children to work even if the future of these innocent children is ruined as that is the only choice open for them to survive in the world
(E)Child labour is no doubt an evil that should be done away with at the earliest
(F)But in a society where many households may have to suffer the pangs of hunger if the children are withdrawn from work beggars can’t be choosers

Question 186

Which of the following should be the FIRST sentence after rearrangement ?

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Question 187

Which of the following should be the THIRD sentence after rearrangement ?

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Question 188

Which of the following should be the SECOND sentence after rearrangement ?

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Question 189

Which of the following should be the FIFTH sentence after rearrangement ?

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Question 190

Which of the following should should be the SIXTH sentence after rearrangement ?

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